Launch default editor

wxPython Users
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Hello

   I swear i have seen this asked before but it may have been dealing
with browsers. Is there a way to launch the default editor for a
system? I'm looking to allow a user to edit files from a menu but i
want it to open in their default editor. Thanks for any suggestions

Christopher

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Christopher Regan wrote:

   I swear i have seen this asked before but it may have been dealing
with browsers. Is there a way to launch the default editor for a
system? I'm looking to allow a user to edit files from a menu but i
want it to open in their default editor. Thanks for any suggestions

In *nix, there should be an environment variable: EDITOR

However, I know I use it for command line editing, but generally use a different GUI editor. You could probably equerry KDE and/or GNOME to see what file associations have been set.

On Windows (and OS-X, I suppose), there should be a way to find file associations, and use the one assigned to *.txt, or maybe *.py, depending on what you think makes sense.

In any case, you should let the user set a preference as to what editor they want to use. In fact, I'd probably just ask the user to do that the first time they try to edit a file, and be done with it, all the above ways are pretty error-prone.

-Chris

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Seg, 2005-06-27 às 10:00 -0700, Chris Barker escreveu:

Christopher Regan wrote:
> I swear i have seen this asked before but it may have been dealing
> with browsers. Is there a way to launch the default editor for a
> system? I'm looking to allow a user to edit files from a menu but i
> want it to open in their default editor. Thanks for any suggestions

On Windows (and OS-X, I suppose), there should be a way to find file
associations, and use the one assigned to *.txt, or maybe *.py,
depending on what you think makes sense.

On Windows, just query the MimeTypesManager for text/plain and use the
GetOpenCommand method. See the wxpython demo(More Windows/Controls ->
MimeTypesManager). On OS-X I don't know.

On Linux, the GetOpenCommand, at least on my system, return always None.
So it's useless.

Ricardo